Week 33 @ Scott

What a week here at Scott! On Monday the school finished up testing due to the missed day of school the week prior and classes were short so students worked on missing work. Then on Tuesday, we were on a special schedule to accommodate the Social Celebration of the end of testing, so students finished their mask activity. On Wednesday all classes participated in a circle talk. In this talk, I used some time to reset expectations around being in class, reiterated that even though we only have 4 weeks of school left we are still working and being the best scholars possible and to address the increase of bad words used in my class. Each YESS class decided on their own unique consequence for what happens when someone uses foul language in the classroom. The ideas ranged from $20 in a cup to tape on their mouths or wearing funny hats in the corner for 5 minutes. We settled on things like 2 warnings and then a minute gets taken away from Friday and 10 jumping jacks where the entire class counts them out. Then the rest of the circle talk was spent talking about school culture and what we as a class could do to improve it.  Two classes decided that throwing a YESS social would be a great way to spread school spirit and we got approval today! On Thursday each student wrote an outline of things they are missing, things they could be working on in tutoring, and learning targets they could work on. This will be used for the rest of the year and the students can check things off as they finish. On Friday each class voted on what they wanted to do for Fun Friday. In one period they wanted to play card games and watch La Rosa de Guadeluope.


We had fun playing Egyptian Ratscrew and learning a new game called golf. In third period we went to the gym and played a 3 on 3 basketball tournament and even I played! My team took the cake! Another class voted to stay inside and watch superhero movies to prepare for the weekend blockbuster hit "Avengers: Endgame." And the last class voted to spend our time running around and playing outside in the beautiful weather! I look forward to planning the social with the kids this and next week and hope our energy flows high this week!